Talent Management

For decades, the mainstream paradigm has been that leaders and managers are fundamentally different. However, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Walt Disney and Jeff Bezos have provided evidence to the contrary. Similarly, Jack Welch and Peter Drucker wrote extensively about the managerial backbone of real leadership. This post explores this debate further.

Knowing the core personality traits of the people you work with helps you relate to them more effectively and achieve better results together. This simple model with the three basic types of employees will help you do just that.

Positive synergy is the holy grail of teamwork. Yet negative synergy is its curse. This post explores this topic in detail and proposes a specific strategy to achieve positive synergy while avoiding its negative counterpart.

Han Solo and Boba Fett are perfect metaphors of how personality may actually be the ultimately predictor of work performance, even more so than talent. Let’s revisit these characters as we redefine what really makes us competent. May the Force be with you!